A method for forming an amorphous semiconductor which contains an impurity element and has low resistivity and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device with excellent electrical characteristics with high yield are provided. In the method for forming an amorphous semiconductor containing an impurity element, which utilizes a plasma CVD method, pulse-modulated discharge inception voltage is applied to electrodes under the pressure and electrode distance with which the minimum discharge inception voltage according to Paschen's Law can be obtained, whereby the amorphous semiconductor which contains an impurity element and has low resistivity is formed.
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1. A manufacturing method of a photoelectric conversion device, comprising the steps of: forming a first electrode over a substrate; forming a first semiconductor film over the first electrode, the first semiconductor film having a first conductivity type; forming a second semiconductor film over the first semiconductor film, the second semiconductor film having a function of photoelectric conversion; forming a third semiconductor film over the second semiconductor film, the third semiconductor film having a second conductivity type; and forming a second electrode over the third semiconductor film, wherein at least one of the first semiconductor film and the third semiconductor film comprises an amorphous semiconductor film formed by a method comprising the steps of: introducing a mixture of a deposition gas containing silicon and a gas containing an impurity element as a source gas into a reaction chamber; setting pressure and an electrode distance in the reaction chamber so that discharge inception voltage is minimum discharge inception voltage in a Paschen curve; and applying pulse-modulated discharge inception voltage to electrodes wherein the pulse-modulated discharge inception voltage is obtained by pulse-modulating the discharge inception voltage.
2. The manufacturing method according to claim 1 , wherein the source gas further comprises hydrogen.
3. The manufacturing method according to claim 1 , wherein the discharge inception voltage is pulse-modulated at a frequency higher than or equal to 1 kHz and lower than or equal to 12.5 kHz.
4. The manufacturing method according to claim 1 , wherein the second semiconductor film comprises a crystalline semiconductor.
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